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Author Lyons, Deborah J.

Title Gender and immortality : heroines in ancient Greek myth and cult / Deborah Lyons.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1997]
©1997

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  880.9 L991G    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-253) and index.
Contents Ch. 1. Heroines and Heroes -- Ch. 2. Heroines and Mortals -- Ch. 3. Mortals and Immortals -- Ch. 4. Dionysiac Heroines -- Ch. 5. The Goddess and Her Doubles -- Appendix: Mythic Female Cult-Founders -- Appendix. A Catalogue of Heroines.
Summary In Gender and Immortality, Deborah Lyons argues for the heroine as a distinct category in ancient Greek religious ideology and daily practice. The heroine, she believes, must be located within a network of relations between male and female, mortal and immortal. Using evidence ranging from Homeric epic to Attic vase painting to ancient travel writing, she attempts to reintegrate the feminine into our picture of Greek notions of the hero. According to Lyons, heroines differ from male heroes in several crucial ways, among which is the ability to cross the boundaries between mortal and immortal. The author further shows that attention to heroines clarifies fundamental Greek ideas of mortal/immortal relationships.
Subject Greek literature -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- Greece.
Immortality in literature.
Women -- Mythology -- Greece.
Sex role in literature.
Heroines in literature.
Mythology, Greek.
Cults -- Greece.
Greece -- Religion.
ISBN 0691011001 (cl : acid-free paper)
9780691011004 (cl : acid-free paper)
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